My eardrums were banging, I felt like someone was sticking needles in my head. “I was in pain, really bad pain and my eyes were rolling back. I was going into cardiac arrest.” Leicester Fainga ...

Despite some best efforts and a patient feeling "better than ever," cardiac arrest is a beast that won in a patient encounter.

Since the 1950s, cardiac arrest has been observed in burn patients receiving succinylcholine. A decade later, hyperkalemia was determined to be the cause of the cardiac arrest in these patients.